> How about ad-free versions of their channels?
Apparently that was what cable was all about at the beginning
It's hard to lure back people to an inferior product.
Apparently that was what cable was all about at the beginning
It's hard to lure back people to an inferior product.
>Apparently that was what cable was all about at the beginning
I wish people would stop saying this, as it was much more about difficulty in receiving OTA signals[0]. HBO is and always has been ad-free, however.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United...
(My wife recently wanted us back on Hulu for Seinfeld, and it was a big factor in our decision to go back that we could turn off the ads, except in a set of shows we don't much care about.)
My understanding of the economics is that $2/month is significantly more than they can hope to make in ads off me, so I'm hoping the money is enough to overcome any residual desire to advertise. (Once the ad addiction is broken, there's good reason to believe it'll stay broken. Nowadays it's easier to get people to just give you a buck rather than shave away pennies at a time through ads. Thirty years ago that wasn't true.)